The EDITO MyOcean Viewer is a powerful tool for data visualization and download interface. The EDITO MyOcean Viewer as an intuitive, detailed, easy-to-use interface. It is available on all computers and mobile devices via any web browser. You will be able to browse near-real-time and past marine information from anywhere in the world, download datasets, create maps, videos and gifs and share them!

Its main objective is to let users explore the data available on EDITO, with a focus on Copernicus Marine and EMODnet data, by displaying the products on a map in 4 dimensions (latitude, longitude, depth and time).

At the top left, you can browse the list of products available by clicking on Add layer. The search for a product can be done by using keywords in the "Free-text search" bar and/or by selecting the type of variable and many other parameters, as time range, area of interest, source of data and more.

Let's select the parameters that best match our search: temperature, Global Ocean, in the present, with daily resolution. The number of products decreases, matching the selected filters. The product that best meets our needs is the Global Ocean Physics Analysis and Forecast. When clicking on its sheet, we have access to the product description: Product ID, DOI, spatial resolution etc.

By clicking on Add to map... under the product's thumbnail, you have access to the list of all the datasets and variables you want to add on the map.

As we are looking for temperature data, in daily resolution, we see the dataset cmems_mod_glo_phy-thetao_anfc_0.083deg_P1D-m where there is the variable sea water potential temperature.

You can navigate around the map by clicking and holding the left mouse button, then dragging the map in any direction: left, right, up, or down.

To zoom in or out, simply use your mouse scroll wheel. If you're using a trackpad, this is equivalent to performing a two-finger scroll gesture: place two fingers on the trackpad and move them downward to zoom in or upward to zoom out.

Let's see here how to modify the appearance of the data (1), show settings (2), visualize the data according to a depth (3) and a date (4):

In the layers panel, you can open the layer configurations by clicking on the gear icon:

In this tab, you can change the opacity (1) of the layer, the color map (2), and the minimum and maximum values to consider (3) by clicking on the framed icon on the right.

In the figure below, the download icon (1) allows you to define the request parameters in order to download a subset of the dataset as a NetCDF file (cf. Download section). The information icon (2) shows the product's description page. To change the current dataset for another one present in the product, you just have to click on the layers icon (3):

You can access the general map settings by clicking on the gear icon located above the depth axis in the viewer. This opens a panel where you can customize several aspects of your viewing experience:

(1) Session Management

(2) Language Selection

(3) Map & Display Settings

(4) Geometries Settings

(5) Units Configuration
You can now define the preferred units for the following parameters:

(6) Miscellaneous Options

Let's now have a look at the depth axis (bottom right). You can display data by depth using this axis. The up and down arrows on your keyboard allow to navigate by 100 meters increments. The scroll wheel of a mouse allows to select a depth more precisely.

Similarly, you can select a specific date from the time axis at the bottom of the interface.

Now that you know how to display a dataset, let's see how to add objects on the map. Many features are available at the bottom right of your screen where you can:

With the "Import" button, it is possible to import a geometry. There are five ways to import geometries:

Graphs are automatically generated for each created/imported object:

With these graphics, it is possible to:

Sometimes, insights can be gained more easily by comparing times series, profiles, etc. directly on the same graph. In order to do this, drag and drop one pin box on top of another to group them:

There is no limit in the number of geometries you can group this way. To ungroup the geometries, click on the Ungroup button:

Finally, to delete a geometry, click on the cross at the top right of its plot window. If you want to free some space on your map but don't want to delete your geometries, you can collapse/un-collapse the plot window content by clicking on the arrow in the top right of the window, and/or drag the window with your mouse to move it out of sight.

We now have access to daily temperature data for our geographical area, date and depth of interest. Let's say we also want to know the speed of ocean currents for the same parameters. The visualization of currents differs slightly from that of temperature.

As seen in Map customization, we can choose another variable from another dataset of the same product Global Ocean Physics Analysis and Forecast by clicking on the layers icon. Here we will pick the variable Sea water velocity from the dataset cmems_mod_glo_phy-cur_anfc_0.083deg_P1D-m.

As for the temperature, we can customize the map colors by clicking on the gear icon. You will notice that a feature has appeared: "Style". It allows to visualize the currents in different ways (solid, solid + vectors, vectors).

Now that we have displayed all our variables, defined the geographical area, the date range and the depth range (only for temperature), we can download the data.

With the objects you can automatically define the geographical coordinates of your area of interest, in the tab of the layer Download icon.

Just click on Define on map (1) and then click on the object of your choice (point (2), line (3) or area (4)):

You can also enter the date and depth range you are interested in. As for the geographical area, you can define the date range and depth range by clicking on As in map and then by selecting the date/depth of your choice using the axes on the Viewer.

Once you entered the subset parameters, you can directly download the data by clicking on Download.

All the data opened on the interface can be exported as animations, images and embedded links, clicking on the Share icon:

Where you can:

There is a built-in export-to-image function. Pan/zoom to your area of interest (the export uses the current map view), click the Share icon, open the Image tab, choose whether to include overlays/legend, then select Download. If you need the underlying data for a geographic subset (NetCDF/CSV) instead of a picture, use Subset and download.

Last but not least, you can visualize your own data on the EDITO MyOcean Viewer by clicking on the tools icon:

There you can upload your own data and explore it using maps and graphs. When uploading your data on the Viewer, we will convert your dataset to ARCO so that you can use all of the application’s features. Conversion will take between 10 seconds and a few minutes, depending on the size of the file and the current system load.

However there are a few requirements (1):

Your dataset will be given an unguessable ID, and only you will find it in your Personal Catalogue. Feel free then to use the Share Link function, or to remove the dataset whenever it’s no longer needed.

You have the possibility to store (or not) the uploaded dataset into your bucket (2). To do so, you'll need the endpoint (3), the name of the bucket (4), the access (5) and secret (6) keys. If you wish to, you can also define the prefix (7) and the name of your dataset (8).

If you have any questions, problems, or suggestions, please feel free to contact us via chat using the widget available at the bottom right of the page.